variants also flunkey or flunkie

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Recent Examples of flunky By quieting the clamor among the offended Giants, Mays was not acting as a flunky for his white manager. Aram Goudsouzian / Made By History, TIME, 25 June 2024 One fib could land him in jail with the rest of his flunkies. Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 25 May 2024 Lou’s father runs the town, sort of like a low-level mobster in a mob that only employs flunkies and toadies with nothing better to do. Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2024 Brennan’s flunkies created a fake online profile to access the network used by the Senate Intelligence Committee, whose Democratic members were at the time investigating the CIA’s torture program. Becket Adams, National Review, 9 July 2023 See All Example Sentences for flunky
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flunky
Noun
  • Advertisement What Fellowes can’t countenance are privileged people who lack the magnanimity befitting their rank and, most of all, servants who are insufficiently grateful to their benevolent employers.
    Judy Berman, Time, 20 June 2025
  • Simone’s job is to make life hell for the family’s other servants, including property manager Jose (Felix Solis), head chef Patrice (Lauren Weedman), and Missy (Britne Oldford), who doesn’t appear to have a specific job.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • Conservative media, once a proud home to voices like Charles Krauthammer, Jonah Goldberg, and Bill Kristol, now platforms ignorant Trump sycophants who have no use for conservative principles — or principles of any kind.
    S.E. Cupp, New York Daily News, 22 May 2025
  • Hitler surrounded himself with sycophants, had zero tolerance for dissent and demanded unwavering loyalty.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
Noun
  • And is order based on legalized violence and theft really order? Bulgakov would have had little time for a Bolshevik lackey like Samson.
    Uilleam Blacker, The Atlantic, 4 June 2025
  • Orwell’s warnings apply across the board, not just when obvious despots and lackeys let their fascist flags fly.
    Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • Instead, the president and his frenzied lickspittles pumped up the volume.
    Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 13 June 2025
  • Republican lickspittles like Lindsey Graham and Jim Banks praised Trump and trashed Zelenskyy while Russian leaders rejoiced.
    Maureen Dowd, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Amazon ramped up its participation in the generative AI arms race with the release of the Amazon Echo smart speaker in 2014, its first product to include its virtual assistant Alexa.
    Anne Marie D. Lee, CBS News, 17 June 2025
  • The previous three were Chavez; Perry’s personal assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, who bought Perry ketamine; and Perry’s friend and dealer Erik Fleming.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • But the joke’s on us — Republican senators, who are the only players with any real power to stop them, have simply decided not to, all so that President Camacho can play at government with his favorite suck-ups.
    S.E. Cupp, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Sara Fischer, Dave Lawler Dec 23, 2024 - Politics & Policy Media's suck-up moment Fearing political retribution and strained by new business challenges, media companies that once covered President-elect Trump with skepticism — and in many cases, disdain — are reconsidering their approach.
    Sara Fischer, Axios, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Courtesy of Lucasfilm On an isolated farm at the outer reaches of a fascist empire, a mid-level government toady interrogates his victims.
    Jake Kleinman, Wired News, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The anecdote illustrates the contrast in competence and grasp of real world dangers between Reagan’s team and Trump’s toadies — and also between these presidents themselves.
    George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Of course, McCreery fans can also hear a few songs from McCreery himself.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 26 June 2025
  • Marte, 31, was left in tears after the fan yelled derogatory comments about his late mother, Elpidia Valdez, who died in a car crash in the Dominican Republic in 2017.
    Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 26 June 2025

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“Flunky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flunky. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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